Time now for all us Wiggins watchers to move with the times and start using Planestation, the new company identity. The name Wiggins Group plc has now disappeared from the database at Companies House and Planestation is now listed on the LSE website.

So fellow travellers, forget Wiggins, the name of the game is now PLANESTATION. Lets hope it goes like an express train.

Fundamentalist

It was interesting that it was written by Piper Terrett & not Tim Freebourne.

Come on Tim, what have you got to say about it?

Looks like a good price to top up next week.

As Fundamentalist said there are several things happening in the next few weeks.

I think that the price is only where it is because of the uncertainty.

Some hot news from Manston just arrived from my spy on the ground is that the terminal restaurant is closing in a day or so. It will be closed for alterations for some weeks and will re-open more oriented towards snacks and tiffin rather than full meals. This news will upset some locals who like to pop in for lunch and watch the aircraft load/unload during their meal.

Still, that's progress, I surmise that the facility will be smaller and the space saved will be utilised for other purposes. The airline will want offices for some personnel, there has been no mention of where they will be located so far.

Will Iny be making and serving the sarnies.

Jeff
I don't think he's qualified.

ttt

I would expect to see franchise caterer in restaurant paying PTG for the pleasure when space planning is completed, which should keep the locals happy and they can watch construction works as well as airplanes

Someone told me that PTG shares are going to take off by 12th may.

When asked why, all he would say is that he read it in the tealeaves.

Probably knows nothing more than we do but we shall see.

I shall miss the old restaurant, Pieter who ran it looked after it well and served up a great Cumberland Sausage in onion gravy. I'm told by locals that there will only be a snack bar when the alterations are finished. Shame, but for the moment the space is probably needed for the arrivals/departures.

so there`ll be no more good news until the catering gets back to normal eh!!

Socks, 'Pieter who ran it looked after it well and served up a great Cumberland Sausage in onion gravy', made me laugh! :-)

Socrates

How local are you to the airport if you have been enjoying such cuisine??
I live in Ramsgate and frequent the spitfire memorial cafe (very nice indeed)

Regards G12

G12
You can see from my profile that I live in Cheltenham, full face I look more like Walls End! I lived in Thanet for about 30 of my formative years and go back regularly to visit relatives. Manston is always on my visit list and my relatives and correspondents keep me informed too.

I'm very much afraid that you have missed any chance of the Cumberland Sausage that gave Golddog such mirth. The Spitfire Cafe is quite nice too though. Many a happy hour I have spent watching the aircraft come and go through my bin's whilst sat at an outside table.

Still cheltenham is a nice place , especially when looking from Cleeve Hill :))

Yes, Cleeve Hill can be a nice place to sit and view the floods from the River Severn!

Socrates, thought I'd pop back to visit you, the other site at present is extremely depressing. Scru although has thrown a little more light with his revelations that make interesting reading. I do respect his vast knowledge and was totally impressed in his approach to the Board at 2003's AGM during question time.

Have been invited to a Top Table at Marham next week, one of my past Chf's has been promoted to WO, should be a cracking function.

Item on BBC news regarding the Liverpool Festival Gardens. Although PTG refused to comment it appears they have done a deal to transfer over the lease. an announcement is expected on Tuesday accoring to the reporter. Anyone know anymore on this?

"New deal for derelict Garden Festival site Apr 29 2004




Exclusive By Mark Hookham, Daily Post





LIVERPOOL'S International Garden Festival site is to be sold in a deal which it is hoped will reverse years of dereliction and decay.

Sources last night told the Daily Post that owner Planestation has agreed a multi-million pound deal to give up its lease of the riverside site.

The news comes only days before the 20th anniversary of the Garden Festival opening and follows years of failure to develop the land in Otterspool, south Liverpool.

The Daily Post understands executives from Planestation, formerly Wiggins, agreed on Tuesday night to assign the site's lease to an unnamed company.

The new leaseholder will hire a developer who will draw up a fresh planning application to transform the site in time for Capital of Culture year in 2008.

The deal for the lucrative site will be announced next week.

A source close to the negotiations last night said: "The deal has been on the cards and will be announced next week.

"Planestation will assign the lease to a third party and it will strike a deal with a developer.

"Planestation have been changing their portfolio of assets and this fits in with that."

It is understood the council wants any new developer to use the majority of the site for family homes.

A small number of the shops will be built and an area will be left open - possibly as part of a coastal park.

Part of the site, including the Chinese gardens, will be restored as public gardens.

Council leader Mike Storey said: "This is the news we have been waiting for for many years.

"There has been a singular lack of progress on this site which meant so much to a lot of people who remember it in its hey-day as a successful garden festival.

"The inactivity has been as frustrating for the city council as it has been for anyone else who values it as a primary site.

"Hopefully now quick progress can be made on delivering an appropriate and sustainable development which will enjoy the support of local people and visitors."

A Planestation spokesman last night refused to comment.



Jean Hills, from the Garden Festival Campaign, urged the new owner not to just build hundreds of homes on the site.

She said: "I want to know who the developer is and what they want from the site. I would much rather have the council take direct control."

Labour leader Joe Anderson said: "The council should have used CPO powers to bring in developers who want work with the council and transform that site. That should have been done two years ago."

The reclaimed landfill site has been derelict since 1986 and a succession of plans for its revival have fallen through.

Wiggins was granted a lease by Merseyside Development Corporation in 1996. In 1998, the company revealed plans for a 1,000ft tower which the council ruled was not feasible.

Three years ago, Wiggins announced scaled-down plans which met fierce opposition from environmental groups, partly because it included a new road to run parallel with Otterspool Promenade.

Last year, the company's third plan for the site was withdrawn before it reached the council's planning committee. In December, the company changed its name to Planestation and announced a 46.3m refinancing package.

Good news again.

I hope they get a good price, we await the numbers.

The site was expected to raise about 25m.

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